Just when people thought it was safe to let their boys join the choir again, more child molestation charges are coming to light in the Roman Catholic Church. Citizens in both The Netherlands and Germany are raising holy smoke about both the sexual abused by priests of their children as well as the church's continued actions in covering up these abuses and protecting the guilty priests. With the Pope's own brother in charge of one of the accused schools, the outcome of this round will not go unnoticed in the news.

It must be pointed out that these charges are coming from Catholic believers, not from Protestants or Catholic "bashers." Already the Roman Catholic Church in the USA has paid out over a half billion dollars to members of the Catholic faith who have been abused by their priests.

If sexually abusing little boys is not bad enough, the largest and oldest Christian religion continues to pass judge on and reject gay people. Last month, a child was expelled from a Catholic School because the child's parents were gay, not the child. Those of us outside organized religion wonder just how big, expensive and vile hypocrisy has to be before the church leaders will see it as a moral issue and deal with it accordingly, not to mention rethinking clerical celibacy, a practice that attracts men who do not want to have sex with women.